Chemistry is the basis of a modern affluent society. This is the message put out by the German Chemistry Museum which opened in 1993 in Merseburg. Its aim is to pay tribute to the outstanding economic and social [...] der chemischen Industrie e. V." and Merseburg Technical College – enhance each other perfectly. The museum is ideally situated: as early as the turn of the 20th century natural resources like brown coal and [...] offered a rare opportunity to save historically valuable sites from being lost forever. Nowadays the museum collection comprises more than 5000 exhibits. But this is not the end. Amongst the planned extensions

was reckoned the largest in Europe by the 1860s, and in the 1960s extended over 24 ha. The company museum is now located in a 6-storey, steel-framed hop storehouse of 1876-82. The displays are interactive

buildings and can be visited as part of a thematic tour, along with other production areas and the museum, established in 2007 in the director’s villa. From 1997 to 2000 a former pub and later warehouse

brewery universe. Today more than 500 different beers are linked with the name Carlsberg. A tour of the museum leads you through the original and still operational brewing plant set up by J. C. Jacobsen in 1847 [...] “Sensory Room”. And afterwards you can always extend your beer experience with a stroll through the museum's own sculpture garden where you can admire a small part of Carlsberg's art collection and say hi

requests in a museum? In Żywiec, however, everything is a bit different. One of the most favourite traditional beers in Poland is brewed in this small pretty town, and the local Brewery Museum will tell you [...] On your visit you will be expressly requested to do things which are mostly strictly forbidden in museums. Visitors are asked to place their hands on straining vats, wooden barrels and many other objects

Victorian architects, best known for Manchester Town Hall, completed in 1877, and for the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, built between 1868 and 1880. The offices were commissioned during 1879, and c

1898 and designed by Glasgow’s city engineer Alexander B McDonald. Since the 1940s it has housed a museum of social history, where artefacts, images, moving film and interactive displays tell the story of [...] International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888 by Sir Henry Doulton (1820-97). The museum also has displays of pottery, textiles, glass and metal castings.

1755. Production ceased in the early 1960s, but the building has been restored and includes a small museum of industrial history and a display space for art exhibitions.

plants and spices, and was carried out in the Palais on an industrial scale. The Palais is now a museum, partly devoted to Benedictine, showing the distillery in the cellars and the plants used in the

to the idea of dealing with the topic of draught horse transport. Already for about 20 years, the museum has documented the global development of horse-driven transport.With its focus on the age of ind

of monuments and museums that recount the success of railway transport in the 19th century as well as its further development. The České Budějovice (Budweis) horse-drawn railway museum in the Czech Republic [...] early indication that this was imperative is the DB Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, which dates back to 1882 and is considered to be the oldest railway museum in the world. [...] early days when rail vehicles still relied on horsepower, even for long distances. At Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry , located in the world's oldest surviving passenger station of 1830, the

companies contributed to the economic strengthening of the Emsland. The Twist oil and natural gas museum provides information on the formation of oil and natural gas millions of years ago, the exploration

Association was founded in 1964. The first restored steam-powered trains ran in 1966 - as Germany's first museum railway. Today, the association operates a 7.8-kilometre-long line with its 1,000-millimetre gauge

The History Workshop deals with the era in Lübeck from industrialization to deindustrialization: its transformation from an ancient merchant city to and industrial one in the nineteenth century and th

PhanTechnikum began as the state technical museum of the German Democratic Republic in 1961. It reopened on a new site in 2012. Its interactive exhibitions aim to inspire amazement and discovery about

1916 and rebuilt in 2012, when the maritime museum Santurtzi Itsasoa Museoa opened its doors in the old basement that was once used as a warehouse. The museum is dedicated to the local history and its

The cotton mills at Narva are part of an integrated textile community consisting of a monumental factory, workers’ housing, schools and institutes, comparable to Saltaire in England, built in the mid-

silk-throwing machines. Not a single of them has survived, but a half-size reconstruction in the Museum of Industrial Heritage keeps them impressingly alive. Coupled with other functional models and a [...] and also tells the story of the former Galotti brickworks based here. On two further floors, the museum captures the panorama of a city which has successfully advanced several industries, including the

The Museum of Lead Mining is set in the picturesque village of Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland. A visit to the Museum can include a trip down the 18th century lead mine, a drift mine set deep [...] being of National Significance. Founded in 1756, the collection consists of 2800 works. Close to the museum you can visit the only reasonably complete water-powered beam pumping machine in Britain: Wanlockhead

extra journeys. The Manuelskotten, a location of the Wuppertal Museum of Industrial Culture, is located in the immediate vicinity of the museum line. With its six-metre-tall overshot water wheel, it is open